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Quantifying Patterns of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: Integrating Biological Point Data with Remote Sensed Environmental Variables

Smith, Thomas (Tom): University of California, Los Angeles (Project Lead)

Project Funding: 2004 - 2008

NRA: 2003 NASA: Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science   

Funded by NASA

Publications:

Alvarado, A. H., Fuller, T. L., Smith, T. B. 2014. Integrative tracking methods elucidate the evolutionary dynamics of a migratory divide. Ecology and Evolution. 4(17), 3456-3469. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1205

Buermann, W., Saatchi, S., Smith, T. B., Zutta, B. R., Chaves, J. A., Mila, B., Graham, C. H. 2008. Predicting species distributions across the Amazonian and Andean regions using remote sensing data. Journal of Biogeography. 35(7), 1160-1176. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01858.x

CHAVES, J. A., WEIR, J. T., SMITH, T. B. 2011. Diversification in Adelomyia hummingbirds follows Andean uplift. Molecular Ecology. 20(21), 4564-4576. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05304.x

Dur, R., Vollaard, B. 2014. The Power of a Bad Example. Environment and Behavior. 47(9), 970-1000. DOI: 10.1177/0013916514535085

Freedman, A. H., Buermann, W., Mitchard, E. T. A., DeFries, R. S., Smith, T. B. 2010. Human Impacts Flatten Rainforest-Savanna Gradient and Reduce Adaptive Diversity in a Rainforest Bird. PLoS ONE. 5(9), e13088. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013088

FREEDMAN, A. H., THOMASSEN, H. A., BUERMANN, W., SMITH, T. B. 2010. Genomic signals of diversification along ecological gradients in a tropical lizard. Molecular Ecology. 19(17), 3773-3788. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04684.x

Fuller, T. L., Thomassen, H. A., Peralvo, M., Buermann, W., Mila, B., Kieswetter, C. M., Jarrin-V, P., Devitt, S. E. C., Mason, E., Schweizer, R. M., Schlunegger, J., Chan, J., Wang, O., Schneider, C. J., Pollinger, J. P., Saatchi, S., Graham, C. H., Wayne, R. K., Smith, T. B. 2013. Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280(1760), 20130423. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0423

Harrigan, R. J., Sedano, R., Chasar, A. C., Chaves, J. A., Nguyen, J. T., Whitaker, A., Smith, T. B. 2014. New host and lineage diversity of avian haemosporidia in the northern Andes. Evolutionary Applications. 7(7), 799-811. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12176

Kieswetter, C. M., Schneider, C. J. 2013. Phylogeography in the northern Andes: Complex history and cryptic diversity in a cloud forest frog, Pristimantis w-nigrum (Craugastoridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69(3), 417-429. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.007

Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., Cohen, R. E., Buermann, W., Smith, T. B., Slabbekoorn, H. 2009. Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise. Behavioral Ecology. 20(5), 1089-1095. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp101

Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., Smith, T. B. 2009. Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(20), 8256-8261. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810124106

Kirschel, A. N. G., Slabbekoorn, H., Blumstein, D. T., Cohen, R. E., de Kort, S. R., Buermann, W., Smith, T. B. 2011. TESTING ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES FOR EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION IN AN AFRICAN SONGBIRD: RAINFOREST REFUGIA VERSUS ECOLOGICAL GRADIENTS. Evolution. 65(11), 3162-3174. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01386.x

Mil'man, D. P., Mil'man, V. D. 1969. The geometry of nested families with empty intersection. structure of the unit sphere of a nonreflexive space. American Mathematical Society Translations: Series 2. 233-243. DOI: 10.1090/trans2/085/10

Mil, J. W. F. 2010. A note of thanks. Pharmacy World & Science. 32(3), 312-313. DOI: 10.1007/s11096-010-9387-8

Ribeiro, R. D., McCormack, J. E., Alvarez, H. G., Carrasco, L., Grether, G. F., Mena-Olmedo, P., Sedano, R., Smith, T. B., Karubian, J. 2015. Loss of sexual dimorphism is associated with loss of lekking behavior in the green manakin Xenopipo holochora. Journal of Avian Biology. 46(3), 307-314. DOI: 10.1111/jav.00545

Rundel, C. W., Wunder, M. B., Alvarado, A. H., Ruegg, K. C., Harrigan, R., Schuh, A., Kelly, J. F., Siegel, R. B., DeSante, D. F., Smith, T. B., Novembre, J. 2013. Novel statistical methods for integrating genetic and stable isotope data to infer individual-level migratory connectivity. Molecular Ecology. 22(16), 4163-4176. DOI: 10.1111/mec.12393

Smith, T. B., Harrigan, R. J., Kirschel, A. N. G., Buermann, W., Saatchi, S., Blumstein, D. T., Kort, S. R., Slabbekoorn, H. 2013. Predicting bird song from space. Evolutionary Applications. 6(6), 865-874. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12072

Thomassen, H. A., Buermann, W., Mila, B., Graham, C. H., Cameron, S. E., Schneider, C. J., Pollinger, J. P., Saatchi, S., Wayne, R. K., Smith, T. B. 2009. Modeling environmentally associated morphological and genetic variation in a rainforest bird, and its application to conservation prioritization. Evolutionary Applications. 3(1), 1-16. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00093.x

THOMASSEN, H. A., CHEVIRON, Z. A., FREEDMAN, A. H., HARRIGAN, R. J., WAYNE, R. K., SMITH, T. B. 2010. INVITED REVIEW: Spatial modelling and landscape-level approaches for visualizing intra-specific variation. Molecular Ecology. 19(17), 3532-3548. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2010.04737.x

Thomassen, H. A., Fuller, T., Buermann, W., Mila, B., Kieswetter, C. M., Jarrin-V., P., Cameron, S. E., Mason, E., Schweizer, R., Schlunegger, J., Chan, J., Wang, O., Peralvo, M., Schneider, C. J., Graham, C. H., Pollinger, J. P., Saatchi, S., Wayne, R. K., Smith, T. B. 2011. Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization. Evolutionary Applications. 4(2), 397-413. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00172.x


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